Symbol For Horizontal Tabulation
Symbol For Horizontal Tabulation has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ␉
- Unicode
- U+2409
About this symbol
␉ is a printable picture of horizontal tab, control code 9 in ASCII, which jumps to the next tab stop, like the tab key of a typewriter. Programmers still argue over whether to indent code with tabs or spaces.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR HORIZONTAL TABULATION
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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